Where does “peliohjain” come from?
peliohjain (Finnish) comes from Finnish peli, from Middle Low German spel, from Old Saxon spil, from Proto-West Germanic spil — dance; game, exercise.
peliohjain (Finnish): A joypad or gamepad
Ancestry of “peliohjain”, step by step
peliohjain traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish peli
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | peli | game; match, game; game; tool, means, implement,... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | spel | — |
| 3 | Old Saxon | spil | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | spil | dance; game, exercise |
via Finnish ohjain
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | ohjain | controller; device driver; control |
| 2 | Finnish | -in | Suffix variant for the illative singular, see... |
| 3 | Proto-Finno-Ugric | *-in | — |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | -ma | — |